Welcome to the first blog post of our latest series „SAND“! Here we will introduce our solution „FAMIUM SAND“ by explaining what it is and why it’s important, especially for content providers. We’ll keep our discussion high-level, but if you…

To some degree, we can compare a DASH MPD to a novel. A novel usually has multiple chapters (DASH periods) with exciting parts (high quality segments) and rather boring parts (low quality segments). Sometimes, we even skip some chapters (seek)….

In cooperation with Zattoo, Fraunhofer FOKUS developed a concept and architecture for enabling HbbTV on Zattoo’s Android TV Operator set-top boxes. As a result, an HbbTV library for Android was developed and integrated in the Zattoo Android TV App. This…

Welcome back to the Deep Encode series! In the previous post, we introduced the entire FAMIUM Deep Encode project and touched upon different aspects and components of the architecture, including a sneak peek into per-scene encoding. In this post, we…

Back in August 2019, we published a post called ‘Per-Title-Encoding’, shortly followed by ‘Calculating VMAF and PSNR with FFmpeg’.  To pick up where we left off, we’d like to begin a “Deep Encode” series – a sequence of blog posts…

As head developers of the dash.js project we are frequently facing situations in which we have to evaluate if the failure of a DASH stream is caused by an actual bug in the implementation of the dash.js player or by…

In a recent blog post by Google Exoplayer developers new experimental features to improve the ExoPlayer’s rendering performance were introduced. As we have received numerous customer complaints about stuttering, freezing and frame drops during video playback on various Android-based devices,…

My colleagues and I love watching football, so I figured that quoting a former NFL player should be a good way to start a blog post: If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed. Terrell Owens I…

In times of Corona not only are big conventions shifting to online meetings but Fraunhofer FOKUS (and many other companies,) have transitioned their regular town hall meetings to virtual settings as well. In this blog post we will explain how…

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) are the two main formats used for adaptive streaming. While HLS is natively supported on most of its target platforms (iOS and MacOSX), external players are needed for MPEG-DASH….